October 10, 2011

          “A soul seeking heaven can be compared to a baby bird waiting to learn how to fly.  The bird has wings but does not yet know how to use them.  Only in growth and maturity does his ability to flow come.  The spiritual life also grows and matures.  Each day brings its own lessons.  How you respond to all that comes into your life is the yardstick of your growth in holiness.  If you respond to grace, more grace is given to you.  If the lesson isn’t learned, it is reworked into another trial, another life lesson.

          The Master is continuously training His students.  It is the school of sanctification.  As you sit silently absorbing the Master’s lectures, you not only learn the facts, you become the lesson.  God’s truths permeate you and you steadily become transformed into an icon of holiness, the Master’s ideal.  Jesus is preparing saints for heaven, holy men and women, profoundly humble, energized by the Holy Spirit, filled with God’s love.  This is the goal of life – being prepared in holiness to enter the eternal heaven.

          Never despise the little daily happenings in your life.  These are your daily lessons from heaven.  This is your preparation for your day of judgment, the day your Master so longs for – to embrace you and give you your final certificate of approval.  He longs to spend eternity in your company.  He has opened the door to heaven.  You must clad yourself in your wedding garment to enter the festivities.

          Let Me walk you to heaven.  Place your hand in mine, open your ear to listen, turn away from the frivolous things of earth, make holiness your priority, and respond to heaven’s calls.  Let the Holy Spirit form you into a saint bound for heaven, your eternal home of blissful joy.

          Keep the focus, My children.  Train your eyes to look up to God looking upon you with such fatherly love.  He will give you all that is necessary to pass through the golden gates.  He loves you dearly.”

Jesus, God’s Son